elk

“An elk is a lot more intimidating than a cow,” Griffin said.

Canadian Mike Weir in 2004 featured elk, wild boar and Arctic char.

Even as the elk moved in, many ranching families were beginning to chafe at what they said was government red tape that made it hard to run their operations.

Renamed Wind Wolves, it is now the largest privately owned nature preserve on the West Coast, where endangered kit foxes and leopard lizards thrive along with elk, blacktail deer, great horned owls and bobcats.

The law, initially passed in 1969, was intended to protect both Sasquatch and elk hunters with particularly large beards, according to the Skamania Chamber of Commerce.